gent; they had their residence at first at Calatrava; afterwards they removed to the city of Thomar, as being nearer to the Moors of Andalusia and Extremadura. CHRIST is also the name of a military order in Livonia, instituted in 1205 by Albert bishop of Riga.

The end of this institution was to defend the new Christians, who were converted every day in Livonia, but were persecuted by the heathens. They wore on their cloaks a sword with a cross over it, whence they were also denominated "brothers of the sword."a town of Poland, near the lake Draufen, and about three Polish miles from Marienburg.